Chip Tsao offers apology
Hong Kong columnist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a “nation of servants” in an article posted on HK Magazine’s website, made a public apology over Hong Kong-based private television network ATV.
The following is excerpt of Mr. Chip Tsao’s interview:
“The “servant” is a good term. A Hong Kong government official is a civil servant. We are all servants to God, right? I’m now aware that I’ve crossed the line and I offer my public apology… The article was never intended to be insulting to the Filipino domestic workers… Has anyone been deeply upset, it was never my intention and I feel sorry” Tsao was quoted as saying.
The Filipino community in Hong Kong, however is reportedly not buying Tsao’s apology and that their protest on Sunday would still push through.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
di parin ako kontento.!
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I am not contented as well.. Parang defensive pa rin sya.. Di ganyan dapat ang pag apologize oy!!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Chip Tsao = crazy uneducated monkey!
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Just right!!! a big ass monkey
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
chill guys
his article is SATIRICAL in the first place
isang malaking misunderstanding lang ito :)
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 am
Monkey Servant!!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 am
its fine at least he apologised not lyk somebody who never admitted their sorrows……….
well i forgive him coz he didnt mean to do it
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 am
well wag mo nang uulitin yan.
Iba kaming pinoy kung magalit
at ikaw ang nagsimula lahat ng gulong ito
at ang Gobyerno namin in#til na walang ginawa kundi
itulak kami palabas ng bansa dahil walang trabaho dito
kung meron man kulang pa sa iyo ang sinasahod mo.
Sana me leader tayo na ile lead tayo sa kaginhawahan, Sana.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
let God judge him… if he is sincere or not,
we can do nothing bout bitterness,
it will cause sin…
will, we are not perfect…
to love our enemies is the way we show our love to God..
God bless us all…
kapamilya tau!!!
“kung cinong wlang kasalan, pwede nyo ng batuhin c. tsao”
nkalimutan ko kc ang line ni santino….
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 am
kung ano-ano pa ang sasabihin ni Chip Tsao na “we are all servants to God”. Wag na sana gamitin ang Diyos sa pang-aalipusta niya sa Pinoy.
In reality, well, most Filipinos are working and migrating to other countries because they find the true pot of gold abroad. Meron din naman dito sa Pinas kaya lang iilan lang ang nabibiyayaan. You may call it unfair but that’s the reality eh.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
kung sinunmang walang kasalanan ang syang mismong pumukol ng bato sa babaeng ito…jesus said….
so lahat ng tao nagkakasala!!!pero anjan si god handang magpatawad at tumanggap ng sorry mula sa atin…..kaya tayong mga pinoy ay madaling mabagbag ang loob dahil may puso tayo at tutuong magkakapuso na kayang tumanggap ng SORRY!.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
i’m not buying Tsip’s apology as well. the article was never satire. it was all discrimination. WE WANT TSIP CHAO IN MANILA!!!!!!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Wooh. Chill guys. :D
Apology accepted.
We all know that we have our own ways of discriminating other races. Quits lang tayo with Chip Tsao. :D
Peace! :D
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Lagi na lang bang sasabihing “SATIRE” ang ginagawa sa mga pinoy? Bakit di nila iyon gamitin sa sarili nilang kababayan or sa country nila … why does it have to be Filipinos/Philippines? Why dont they try dump their racial slur with super powers US/USSR? Is it because we are the easy target?
I hope this issue will teach him a lesson and so do we, pinoys.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
the damage has been done. isa pa rin cyang taong walang respeto sa kapwa at sa sarili. bwiset!
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
let’s give tsao the benefit of the doubt – as to his sincerity in apologizing for his vile comments. to err is human, to forgive is divine. precisely, there is an eraser at the other end of the pencil in recognition of the fact that we all commit mistakes. it is an admitted fact that many of us are reluctant to leave our country and accept whatever jobs available outside in our desire to better ourselves because our government remain indifferent or choose to be blind to look after our needs. our leaders are partly to blame for the slur, but the lion share of it goes to us for not votingh wisely or for selling our votes during election time…
April 4th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
baka sinipa ni mao chi tong kaya nataohan…
April 4th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Parang sinabi na rin nya na “hoy, satire itong sinulat ko, hindi lang kayo marunong umintindi ng satire. Sorry kung nasaktan ko kayo pero hindi yun ang pakahulugan ko ng SERVANT.” Parang ipinamumukha sa atin na hindi tayo marunong mag-english at umintindi ng english. Dapat kasi talagang sincere ang pagso-sorry nya at inaamin nya na talagang mali ang sinulat nya against Filipino DH, wag yung ililihis nya ang tunay kahulugan ng SERVANT at ipaiintindi pa sa atin kung anu ang kahulugan ng SERVANT.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
By the way Mr. Tsao, where not against about the term SERVANT you used. Ibang-iba ang SERVANT na pinakahulugan mo nuong isinulat mong article kesa sa sinasabi mo ngayong nag-apology ka. Dapat isinama mo yan kasama nung article mo, hindi yung ngyon mo lang sinasabi. Well, damaged has been done…we will forgive but we will not forget you. Pasalamat ka at nasa HongKong ka.
April 4th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
The Philippines is a nation of servant? tapos sasabihin mo ““The “servant” is a good term. A Hong Kong government official is a civil servant. We are all servants to God.”
Hayup ka! E bakit binansagan mong nation of servant ang ‘Pinas? Kung yan ang definition mo ng “servant” na ginamit mo sa article mo, lahat ng bansa (kasama ang bansa mong Tsina) ay nations of servants din.. gago!
April 4th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
korek cubie. eksakto!
April 5th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
mali ka chip tsao mga kapamilya lang ang servants…
April 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Tsao meaning mabaho. Mabaho din magsalita! hahahaha! I also sometimes discriminate chinese, when they keep on producing substandard produts! I have this mentality of generalizing them sometimes.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Cheap Tsao: There are a lot of “Filipino servants” in Hong Kong because we have to do the things that your useless wives/women CANNOT and WOULD NOT DO! Chinese women are so lazy that they have to rely on their maids to do things for them, I know because I live here and I have neighbors with Filipina maids. Chinese people treat them like slaves, some don’t even have decent food to eat. Chinese people are the most racist people on earth that’s why there is no anti discrimination law here. Their prisons are not enough to jail a million chinese a day.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
pati yong apology niya insulting pa rin. parang nag-e-explain siya sa mga bobo. Taken alone, “a nation of servants” can mean something positive, but considering the whole article, including the part where he berated his helper, citing the act of washing the toilet as a degrading task, and the phrase “But hold on–even the Filipinos?” Cheap Chao said Russia’s act of sinking a Chinese freighter and killing 7 Chinese seamen and Japan’s planting of a flag on a Chinese island were very acceptable acts to him, but not Filipinos claiming something that could really be theirs. Are we Filipinos to be trampled on just because we’re not as influential as the Russians and the Japanese, or because many of our government officials are corrupt, and or that some foreigners are being kidnapped here (and so in many other countries)? Cheap Chao should not be writing for global consumption, because he doesn’t have multicultural sensitivity and doesn’t have the intellectual capability to analyze the impact of what he is saying. If the thousands of Filipinas in HK return to the Philippines in one mass exodus, what are affected in the Philippines are only the families of those returning and businesses patronized by those families. What about HK? Will their banks and other businesses operate if their employees and executives can’t go to work because they have to take care of the needs of their families? He should be thanking there are Filipinos willing to clean his toilet….ouch!!! so painful, but true
April 5th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
kunwari pa kayong galit sa HK
eh lagi naman fully booked mga planes going to hk pag mga peak seasons, specially christmas.
mga pinoy talaga ang labo
April 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
galit ang mga servant na kapamilya… hahahaha mahirap talaga pag DH mga viewers lalo na pag OFW…hahahah
April 7th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Somehow his “apology” didn’t register as sincere. He just tried to make it well-crafted but it still struck me as “namimilosopo.” Haaay! Yes, we do have domestic helpers working for them. That is a fact. But the sad part is, the clueless and senile Chip Tsao make it seem that because they pay you for your services, they already “own” you and can say anything whatever they want. It is not as if these employers are the most “humane” in their treatment of their helps. To give a person employment and demand good service is one thing. Making them loyal to you is another — it is gained through constant respect and genuine concern. Chip Tsao’s column is telling of his real attitude towards the Filipinos — he thinks he as an HK citizen owns us because of the money he pays his help and by that he will say anything about us and we will kowtow to it. Chip Tsao, you are sooooo two centuries ago!
April 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
^^^dont blame chip tsao blame it to the Corrupt Officials ng pilipinas…
April 7th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I am there with you on blaming our corrupt leaders. In many ways, they really made so much disservice to us and made us look so bad in the eyes of the global community. However, Mr. Tsao shouldn’t be blameless either. What he did was insensitive and rude to all of us Filipinos. Writer pa man din siya.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
kukuyugin yan kapag napunta yan di2! kapuso man o kapamilya, babatuhin yan ng kamatis! for sure yet excited na kame!!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
ang sabihin mo, you are just greedy over our KASIPAGAN chip! hahaha XD
April 8th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
blame ninyo c PGMA may project pa cya Super DH..kakahiya… promoting slavery in the modern age…
April 8th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Napilitan lang mag-apologize yun kasi hiningi natin.
I’m sure he’s not sincere. Meron talagang mga taong ganyan ang ugali.
At saka yung justification niya na yung word na servant ay sacred daw at “people are sevants of God” at yung “government official is a civil servant” ay hindi majujustify yung sinabi niya dahil malinaw na hindi sa ganung context ng word na yun niya ginamit sa article niya na yun.
Mukha pa lang niya eh talagang nay pagka-mayabang na itong si “cheap chow” eh. Mukhang villain talaga. Mataas ang tingin niya sa sarili niya. Tignan lang natin kung mamuhay siya ng tulad ng pangkaraniwang pinoy kung makaka-survive siya. P.I. niya… sorry sa pagmumura.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Sana makarma sya, mawalan ng trabaho, mawala lahat ng pag-aari, mabankrupt at maging pulubi.
Pasensya na. Galit talaga ako sa mga katulad nya.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
The damage has been done and it’s too late to be sorry and PLEASE DON’T USE THE SACRED SCRIPTURES COMING FROM THE BIBLE JUST FOR US TO ACCEPT APOLOGY… YOU ARE LIKE SATAN WHO IS QUOTING PSALM 91 TO TEMP JESUS…
April 8th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
continuation of my other comment-
Wecan forgive and forget all of what you have done, but always remember not to use the sacred scriptures to shield your wrongdoings … Because as GOD says Vengance is mine not yours. SoWe will leave everything to GOD.